QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Nationally recognized professional standards. Answer: Are only
legal mandates when adopted by local jurisdictions and serve as
models of acceptable performance
◉ National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Answer: establishes
and publishes codes, standards, guidelines, and recommended
practices for the prevention and control of fire
◉ Essential elements of a group. Answer: Common binding interest,
sense of continuity, shared set of values
◉ Communication grapevine usually transmits.... Answer: Info that
can't be ensured as accurate and official
◉ Leader of an informal group. Answer: The emerging leader
regardless of whether or not a formal selection process has been
used
◉ Ego fulfillment is also known as. Answer: Self esteem
,◉ Self actualization. Answer: the process by which people achieve
their full potential
◉ When interacting with the formal and informal groups of an FD
company officers should. Answer: Attempt to mesh the
organizational values of both groups together
◉ Unity of command. Answer: The "one supervisor" principle
◉ Discipline. Answer: Setting the limits for expected performance
and enforcing them
◉ Spam of control. Answer: The limit one person can effectively
manage
◉ Division of labor. Answer: Breaking down a job into separate,
smaller tasks
◉ Line-item accounting is a form of:. Answer: budgetary control
◉ Preliminary budgets for the upcoming fiscal year often start with:.
Answer: Service levels from the previous year
, ◉ Scalar Organizational Structure. Answer: Organizational structure
that provides paramilitary, pyramid type of organization with a
continuous line of command and authority centralized at the top
◉ authority. Answer: Legal ability to make and implement decisions
◉ decentralized authority. Answer: When decision-making is
delegated to lower-level managers and employees more familiar
with local conditions than headquarters is.
◉ centralized authority. Answer: an organization structure in which
decision-making authority is maintained at the top level of
management
◉ Certain decision making authority is delegated to lower levels and
communication is enhanced in which type of organizational
structure?. Answer: Scalar Organizational Structure
◉ During which step in the budget process does the chief justify the
budget to the organization as a whole. Answer: Internal review
◉ The first step in the budgeting process. Answer: Planning